Here's our roundup of this week's must-read posts!
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TOD is finally coming east of the Anacostia River. What’s planned, and why did it take so long?
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by Christina Sturdivant Sani (Contributor) • September 21, 2022
Transit-oriented development in DC has been concentrated west of the Anacostia River. That’s about to change, with a slate of new projects pushed by tenants themselves, the DC government, and now more private investment. However, with a long history of underinvestment, the EOTR area has unique barriers to building quality TOD projects.
What experts say needs to be done to disrupt historic patterns of segregation in DC’s schools
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by Abigail Higgins (Contributor) • September 19, 2022
As DC schools continue to struggle to disrupt historic patterns of segregation, experts weigh in on what can be done to improve students’ lives as debates over school boundary redistricting loom.
In Prince George’s County, there once was a supermarket fit for a queen
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by Addison Del Mastro (Contributor) • September 23, 2022
There was a Giant supermarket in Prince George’s County that Queen Elizabeth II toured all the way back in October of 1957.
Alexandria’s Duke Street: An opportunity for BRT, and a walk- and bike-friendly corridor
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by Jim Durham (Guest Contributor) • September 22, 2022
The City of Alexandria wants to make a four-mile section of Duke Street a key transit corridor. How this can work and also be a great space for bicycles and pedestrians.
Introducing Emails to the Editor, the new way to share your comments
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by Chelsea Allinger (Executive Director) • September 23, 2022
GGWash is transitioning from our current comments section to an Emails to the Editor form of engagement.
JOB POSTING: Research transportation and health inequities in DC
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Are you interested in how transportation affects health and health inequity in cities? Do you have skills in research and data analysis? Can you summarize complex research into clear and concise language? GGWash is looking for a great researcher and writer who’s worked with transportation and/or health data sets and reports in the past to help us draw a clearer picture of how these issues are related, and rooted in systemic racism and other margins of inequity.
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